Chapter 18: Urban Growth and Farm Protest
1887-1893

    I. Urbanization
          A. Exploding population
          B. Structures and infrastructures
          C. Need for services grows

     II. The New Immigration
          A. Ethnic communities
          B. Nativist reaction
          C. Political machines and settlement houses

     III. Foreign Policy
          A. Overseas markets
               1. Isolationism
               2. Expansionism
          B. Roots of Imperialism
               1. McKinley Tariff
               2. Hawaii

     IV. Angry Farmers
          A. Rise of the Populists
               1. Farmers Alliance
          B. Election of 1892

Key Terms

      Sooners
     Louis Sullivan
     tenement houses
     nativist
     settlement house
     Battle of Wounded Knee
     McKinley Tariff 1890
     Isolationism
     Expansionism
     Imperialism
     Farmers Alliance
     Co-ops
     Free Silver
     Benjamin Harrison
     Grover Cleveland

Study Questions

     1. In your own words, describe what life was for people in America during the Victorian era.

     2. Describe the "new immigrant's" experiences upon coming to America.

     3. Explain what happened to America's cities between the end of the Civil War and 1890.  What caused the changes?

     4. Why were farmers so angry in the late 1880s?

     5. Explain why some Americans began to embrace the idea of imperialism in the 1890s.